realizations

early in the week, i had a run in with my mom that sent me reeling.  some that know me might read this and think why did you allow it? i will say it has been a long while since i had this kind with her and it knocked me for a loop.  i wasn’t ready, i let my guard [...]

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What was i saying about finances?

Thursday night i wrote on here about how the last two months have been hard and i was really just staying positive believing that everything would work out.  Friday i was at work and on my lunch when my manager took me into her office and asked me about changing positions.  i was excited because [...]

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vacation is just around the bend

i leave the day after tomorrow on a plane for New York.  i am excited, a little nervous, and happy with some other emotions mixed in there as well.  this is a big trip for me, i am going by myself and it is excited and liberating.  i think this trip is going to change [...]

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lightbulb moments

Saturday when i was getting ready to make my soup and just get things done in the kitchen, i decided to haul out my old cassette tapes.  a lot of them are christian contemporary or praise.  i listened to Jennifer Knapp’s Kansas album which got me thinking about when i first bought it in college.  [...]

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you know what to do, so DO it!

sleep has been rather difficult lately.  yesterday morning i woke up at 5:00 and couldn’t get back to sleep.  last night i had a hard time falling asleep…well that is because i was watching the Fiesta Bowl and was so hyped up from that.  when i did go to sleep though i woke up in [...]

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milestones and lessons learned

i have been thinking about 2008.  i wanted to look at things that happened and things i learned as 2009 starts off.  so here goes…at the beginning of 2008 i started substitute teaching and the lessons learned there just keep on coming…everything from what i would love to do with my own class to things i [...]

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it’s a new year, NEW

i woke up at 3:30 in the morning and sleep after that was very elusive.  i mulled over some thoughts of a poem little of which i remember now.  i have gotten off track, way off track.  i have pulled back.   i was told i do that…when things get rough or when they are not [...]

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choose, choose, choose

i worked at the CU today all day because they were short handed, very much so.  i was glad to help because that meant a. i didn’t have to worry about getting up and looking for a job and b. i could stay up later and sleep in.  for about two hours there was only [...]

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